<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749969331062035708</id><updated>2012-02-16T07:44:04.100-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reflecting 2010</title><subtitle type='html'>Reflecting on 2010 and a memory of my grandmother</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alice-bussey.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5749969331062035708/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alice-bussey.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alice Bussey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04624147484664761316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lo3Ci-nbAVQ/TGpu3ukmDzI/AAAAAAAAAAM/o-_947mQMO0/S220/Headshot+with+logo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749969331062035708.post-1865553666685926191</id><published>2011-01-03T14:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T14:48:08.958-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reflecting 2010</title><content type='html'>﻿ &lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lo3Ci-nbAVQ/TSJQbMDIZQI/AAAAAAAAAA8/gbVIE7-1v3Y/s1600/tn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lo3Ci-nbAVQ/TSJQbMDIZQI/AAAAAAAAAA8/gbVIE7-1v3Y/s1600/tn.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Reflecting Memories&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Good Morning Friends,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;It is so much fun decorating for Xmas and having the Xmas spirit. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;But now 2010 is over...I’ve made my New Years' Resolution is to keep my life de-clutter.&amp;nbsp; Out with OLD (dead weight, selfish people, negative people with nothing nice to say or do, and last but not least Fakers) in with the NEW (de-clutter my house and work space, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;positive people, think out of the box, creative, honesty, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Integrity, and work hard, do unto other as you would have them do unto you and most all be very thankful)&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I remembered a childhood memory…I once was talking to a precious and wise old lady…so I thought she was old.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;My grandmother (Wela) was so wise and love story telling.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Her story telling had a meaning that I could never understand.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I was only a little girl and when I grew up into my Junior and High School years I defiantly didn’t want to be bothered with her story tells…Blah Blah Blah, wah, wah, wah…I knew it all…so I thought.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;My Wela loved to sew. She sat in her old sewing chair and in front of her sewing machine for hours making quilts.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;One day I asked Wela how do you know all this stuff and she would laugh and say , Mehita (daughter), “I just do.”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Life is what gives you memories and memories give you a reflection of good and bad experiences in your life.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We are to take the reflection and analysis everything you have experience and decide what you learned from them.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;After you’ve done that,&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;ASK ASK one question and on question only.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I said, To Who?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Wela was looking at me with her thick glasses and beautiful those eyes.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Her eyes were blue-ish gray &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and I felt she can see right thru me…my thoughts, my pain.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Later on I came to find out she had cataracts and legally blind from her right eye.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Wela, “who do I ask and what do I ask?”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;“Just ask, he can hear you, just talk and talk like you are talking to your best friend,” she said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Wela’s answer was more confusing to me than ever.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I started to talk and then I asked.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;GOD, WHY GIRLS DON’T LIKE ME, GOD WHY…Wela interrupted and said, Only ask one question.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Make sure it’s the question you reflected on. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;“GOD WHY DOES IT SEEMS LIKE I CAN’T DO NOTHING RIGHT!” I said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Okay I’ve asked so where my answer…I don’t hear him.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;PATIENCE, sshh!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Don’t talk, close your eyes, place your hand on your heart…quiet, peaceful now.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Wait you will hear him talk to you.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Only you can hear him.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;He might not answer right away, just ask again and have PATIENCE!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Wela was right! I heard him, &lt;em&gt;OUT with the OLD and IN with the NEW!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Do BAD (old) things in your life and you will not succeed in your life…Be GOOD (new) and you will succeed in abundance!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My lesson learned for 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt; was about people (politions, teachers, friends, associates, family, etc…) Funny thing I had a memory of this same year several years ago.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;My Welita said never stop reflecting back because you will fall again…I sure did, took it for granted.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Always remember, always forgive, but never forget.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Apparently I failed this year 2010, I had become very gullible and failed to ASK and pray for more than I should have.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;I encountered a bumping road during this year 2010 with envious, jealousy, spiteful, and e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;vil people.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Then there were are some people …so you thought were your friends… you just have to make that true commitment and disassociate yourself from and say GOD I leave them in your hands.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I’m a true believer, if you feel it’s wrong, it’s WRONG and if it walks like a DUCK, then it’s a DUCK!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Just stay away from people that are not doing anything but sucking your life energy way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My goals&amp;nbsp;met, very blessed and thankful 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;…LOST WEIGHT 30lbs, blessed to see my daughter get married, blessed to have a wonderful husband and all my children, blessed to work with Keller Williams Realty Coastal Bend and all my clients that believed in me, blessed my family are healthy, blessed my husband has a job, blessed to have abundance of love, faith, God, prayer, food, house, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;car, and all my blessing are a recipe of a life of gratitude.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;May all your lessons not be forgotten and my all your goals be met.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Happy New Year 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Alice Bussey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5749969331062035708-1865553666685926191?l=alice-bussey.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alice-bussey.blogspot.com/feeds/1865553666685926191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://alice-bussey.blogspot.com/2011/01/reflecting-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5749969331062035708/posts/default/1865553666685926191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5749969331062035708/posts/default/1865553666685926191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alice-bussey.blogspot.com/2011/01/reflecting-2010.html' title='Reflecting 2010'/><author><name>Alice Bussey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04624147484664761316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lo3Ci-nbAVQ/TGpu3ukmDzI/AAAAAAAAAAM/o-_947mQMO0/S220/Headshot+with+logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lo3Ci-nbAVQ/TSJQbMDIZQI/AAAAAAAAAA8/gbVIE7-1v3Y/s72-c/tn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749969331062035708.post-7890543220358037748</id><published>2010-08-17T04:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-17T04:24:24.620-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AUGUST 2010 Newsletter by Alice Bussey</title><content type='html'>Welcome to the most current Housing Trends eNewsletter. This eNewsletter is specially designed for you, with national and local housing information that you may find useful whether you’re in the market for a home, thinking about selling your home, or just interested in homeowner issues in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please click on this link to view the Housing Trends AUGUST 2010 Newsletter &lt;a href="http://alicebussey.housingtrendsenewsletter.com/"&gt;http://alicebussey.housingtrendsenewsletter.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Housing Trends eNewsletter contains the latest information from the National Association of REALTORS®, the U.S. Census Bureau, Realtor.org reports and other sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also includes press releases with charts and videos, key market indicators and real estate sales and price statistics, a video message by a nationally recognized economist, maps, mortgage rates and calculators, consumer articles, plus community reports that map shopping, schools, recreation and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are interested in determining the value of your home, click the “Home Evaluator” link for a free evaluation report:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://alicebussey.housingtrendsenewsletter.com/dispContent.cfm?loadid=2&amp;amp;loadtype=0"&gt;http://alicebussey.housingtrendsenewsletter.com/dispContent.cfm?loadid=2&amp;amp;loadtype=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sound decisions can only be made with accurate and reliable information, and I am happy to be a trusted resource for you. 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